Regular expressions in the replace field

markallanson · 09-06-2014, 12:06 PM

I have several e-books that were converted from PDF to AZW3. A lot of them have sentences that are broken by tags such as:

“Thank you.” Justin made himself comfortable on the love seat 

and accepted a glass of wine. “I think I’ve just overindulged in too much food while I’ve been here. I don’t get this kind of cooking at home. In fact, I usually skip meals.” 

Is there a way to use search and replace with regex to merge the broken sentences back together?

DrChiper · 09-06-2014, 12:25 PM

Try using regex:

Code:

Find: </p> <p class="calibre1">([a-z])
Replace: \1

Might do the trick

markallanson · 09-06-2014, 12:35 PM

Thanks DrChipper, that works. Except that it also finds upper case letters also.

theducks · 09-06-2014, 12:35 PM

Dr C's tip is a great start: I prefer to use \s+<p to allow for code indention variations

There will (always) be exceptions

Mr.
Jones

I have a series of these REGEX patterns I use

The one given is my usual first pass (use ALL with care. There are EXCEPTIONS

where the lines should NOT be joined)

IMHO Always do a bunch of Find, Replace manually before letting the REGEX loose (if at all) to see if there are Gotchas in your pattern

DrChiper · 09-06-2014, 12:39 PM

theducks: Sound advice.
Always test before using on your whole document. Do not forget to check the "case sensitive" check-box.

markallanson · 09-06-2014, 12:44 PM

Case sensitive. Why didn't I think of that. Thanks a ton.

09-06-2014, 12:06 PM	#1
markallanson Couch Potato Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Kindle Keyboard 3rd Gen.	Regular expressions in the replace field I have several e-books that were converted from PDF to AZW3. A lot of them have sentences that are broken by tags such as: <p class="calibre1">“Thank you.” Justin made himself comfortable on the love seat </p> <p class="calibre1">and accepted a glass of wine. “I think I’ve just overindulged in too much food while I’ve been here. I don’t get this kind of cooking at home. In fact, I usually skip meals.” </p> Is there a way to use search and replace with regex to merge the broken sentences back together?

09-06-2014, 12:25 PM	#2
DrChiper Bookish Posts: 910 Karma: 1803094 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: PC, t1, t2, t3, aura 2 v1, clara HD, Libra 2, Nxtpaper 11	Try using regex: Code: Find: </p> <p class="calibre1">([a-z]) Replace: \1 Might do the trick

09-06-2014, 12:35 PM	#4
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,839 Karma: 54837878 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Dr C's tip is a great start: I prefer to use </p>\s+<p to allow for code indention variations There will (always) be exceptions Mr.</p> <p>Jones I have a series of these REGEX patterns I use The one given is my usual first pass (use ALL with care. There are EXCEPTIONS where the lines should NOT be joined) IMHO Always do a bunch of Find, Replace manually before letting the REGEX loose (if at all) to see if there are Gotchas in your pattern

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09-06-2014, 12:39 PM	#5
DrChiper Bookish Posts: 910 Karma: 1803094 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: PC, t1, t2, t3, aura 2 v1, clara HD, Libra 2, Nxtpaper 11	theducks: Sound advice. Always test before using on your whole document. Do not forget to check the "case sensitive" check-box.

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markallanson Couch Potato Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Kindle Keyboard 3rd Gen.	Case sensitive. Why didn't I think of that. Thanks a ton.

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